Methods, apparatus and media for system management of object oriented information models

• US 8,103,698 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2007
• Issued: 01/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Yin, Jianwen, Buchanan, Jody, Jayaraman, Vishwanath
• Primary Examiner(s): Jalil, Neveen Abel
• Assistant Examiner(s): KINSAUL, DANIEL W
• Application Number:
  US11/680,451
• Publication Number:
  US 20080208896A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,791 Days
• Field of Search: 719315-316, 707/103
• US Class Current: 707/802
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/217 Database tuning G06F16/2282 takes precedence; database performance monitoring G06F11/3409
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/289 Object oriented databases

Abstract

A computer implemented method is disclosed including receiving a client request from a client within an object-oriented model and intercepting said client request with a client abstraction layer able to communicate with said client and a management layer database. The method further includes generating with said client abstraction layer a request for information from said management layer database, wherein said database comprises information describing each managed object of said object-oriented model. An information handling system is further disclosed including a processor and memory accessible by the processor. The system further includes instructions stored on the memory that when carried out cause the system to initialize a discovery process identifying each managed object of the information handling system. The instructions further cause the system to add to a management layer database created by a client abstraction layer, the management layer database comprising information describing each managed object of said system any new information describing the managed object of the system, wherein said new information is not already present in the management layer database, and wherein said database is created when said instructions are installed on said system.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method comprising:

initializing a discover process identifying each managed object of the model; and

adding to said database any new information not present in the database wherein said new information describes a managed object of the model;

receiving a client request from a client for information directed to one of a plurality of managed objects within an object-oriented model;

intercepting said client request to the one of a plurality of managed objects with a client abstraction management layer database for managing each of the plurality of managed objects, wherein the client abstraction management layer is in communication with the client and each of the plurality of managed objects having an object manager installed thereon;

populating the client abstraction management layer database with at least one of a plurality of database tables based on at least one parameter able to identify said each of the plurality of managed objects;

updating the client abstraction management layer database with changes to the at least one parameter, wherein the step of updating the client abstraction management layer database is periodically effected;

generating with the client abstraction management layer a response for the client request for the information directed to the one of a plurality of managed objects from said client abstraction management layer database.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said client abstraction management layer database is created by the client abstraction management layer when the client abstraction management layer is installed on an information handling system of said object-oriented model.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising

providing said requested information from the client abstraction management layer to said client and wherein the step of updating the client abstraction management layer database occurs when a change to the status of a managed object is detected.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising

generating with the client abstraction management layer a client abstraction management layer request for information from an object manager of said model,

receiving with the client abstraction management layer requested information from said object manager,

providing said requested information from the client abstraction management layer to said client, and

updating said database with said requested information from said object manager.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said object-oriented model is a common information model (CIM).

16. The method of claim 1, wherein initiating a discovery process is triggered by an indication that at least one change of the information stored in the client abstraction management layer database occurs.

6. An information handling system comprising:

a processor;

memory accessible by the processor; and

instructions stored on the memory that when carried out cause the system to;

initialize a discovery process identifying managed objects of the information handling system;

add to a client abstraction management layer database created by a client abstraction management layer at least one new information of one of the plurality of managed objects within an object oriented model having an object manager installed, the client abstraction management layer database comprising at least one of a plurality of database tables based on at least one parameter able to identify each of the plurality of managed objects, the database tables being updatable, and said database being created when said instructions are installed on said system;

receive a client request from a client for information directed to one of the managed objects within the object oriented model;

intercept said client request to the one of the plurality of managed objects with the client abstraction management layer, wherein the client abstraction management layer is in communication with the client and each object manager installed on each of the plurality of managed objects; and

generate with the client abstraction management layer a management layer request for information from said client abstraction management layer database;

generate a response for the request for information directed to the one of a plurality of managed objects from said client abstraction management layer database;

wherein the updating of the client abstraction management layer database is periodically effected.

7. The system of claim 6, further comprising instructions that when carried out cause the system to:

receive requested information in response to the request for information with the client abstraction management layer from said database wherein the updating of the client abstraction management layer database occurs when a change to the status of a managed object is detected.

8. The system of claim 7, further comprising instructions that when carried out cause the system to:

provide said requested information from the client abstraction management layer to said client.

9. The system of claim 8, further comprising instructions that when carried out cause the system to:

generating with the client abstraction management layer a client abstraction management layer request for information from an object manager of said model,

receiving with the client abstraction management layer requested information from said object manager,

providing said requested information from the client abstraction management layer to said client, and

updating said database with said requested information from said object manager.

10. The system of claim 6 wherein said object-oriented model is a common information model (CIM).

11. A computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions that when carried out on an information handling system cause the system to:

initialize a discovery process identifying managed objects of the information handling system;

add to a client abstraction management layer database created by a client abstraction management layer at least one new information of one of the plurality of managed objects within an object oriented model having object managers installed, wherein the client abstraction management layer database comprising at least one of a plurality of database tables based on at least one parameter able to identify the each of the plurality of managed objects, the information is updatable, and said database is created when said instructions are installed on said system;

update the client abstraction management layer database with changes to the at least one parameter, wherein the update to the client abstraction management layer database is periodically effected;

receive a client request from a client for information directed to one of the managed objects within the object oriented model;

intercept said client request to the one of the plurality of managed objects with the client abstraction management layer, wherein the client abstraction management layer is in communication with the client and each object manager installed on each of the plurality of managed objects; and

generate with the client abstraction management layer a management layer request for information from said database,

generate a response from said client abstraction management layer database to the request for information directed to the one of a plurality of managed objects.

12. The medium of claim 11 further comprising instructions that when carried out cause the system to:

receive with the client abstraction management layer the requested information from said database and wherein the step the update to the client abstraction management layer database occurs when a changed status of a managed object is detected.

13. The medium of claim 11 further comprising instructions that when carried out cause the system to:

provide said requested information from the client abstraction management layer to said client.

14. The medium of claim 11 further comprising instructions that when carried out cause the system to:

generating with the client abstraction management layer a client abstraction management layer request for information from an object manager of said model,

receiving with the client abstraction management layer requested information from said object manager,

providing said requested information from the client abstraction management layer to said client, and

updating said database with said requested information from said object manager.

15. The medium of claim 11 wherein said object-oriented model is a common information model (CIM).